After the US house of representatives shot down Henry Paulson’s bailout plan earlier in the week, I began to wonder how the US financial crisis would affect the budding alternative energy industry, and other clean technology sectors in need of venture capital.  But neither this past week  nor the last year of economic downturn  has necessarily meant doom and gloom for cleantech investment in the US or, as it turns out, South Africa.

See this week’s column for more:  Green markets are cleaning up

Here’s some further reading:
Cleantech Investing Still Hits Record, Despite Credit Crunch (Earth2tech.com)
The Credit Crunch: Yet Another Pitfall for Ethanol  (Earth2tech.com)

Evolution One, SA’s first private equity cleantech fund  (itinews.co.za)

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